George, Duke of Kent, 1902-1942

Date: 1938

From: [New Zealand calendars and blank diaries of octavo size]

Reference: Eph-A-CALENDAR-1938-01

Description: Diary with photographs of King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Duke and Duchess of Kent, the late King George V, Field-Marshal Lord Milne, late Field Marshal Earl Haig, late Admiral Earl Jellicoe, London mayor Sir Harry Edward Twyford and his wife; and various Empire High Commissioners working at their London desks (including J W [ie W J] Jordan of New Zealand). Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1941 to 1942

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: McIntyre, Peter, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-q-297

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Middle East and England during World War 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many individuals identified in the album are listed above. Scenes include physical training at the School of Instruction, Maadi Camp; reproductions of paintings by war artist Peter McIntyre (p 1-2, 93); scenes with His Excellency the Governor-General of NZ, Sir Cyril Newall, visiting Samoa and Fiji in 1942 (p 2-7); New Zealand members of ski units including members of the Maori Battalion at the Ninth Army Ski School in Syria; NZEF and Red Cross distribution of flour to Syrian people; parade through Aleppo. Officers, nursing sisters and Lady Freyberg at Anzac Day service at Maadi Camp in 1942; the visit of the NZ High Commissioner to a "west coast port", William Jordan and officers of NZ ships; arrival of pilots and observers for the RAF; scenes with King George VI & Queen Elizabeth visiting RAF Bomber Command, and the King watching landing exercises in Scotland. New Zealanders after withdrawing from the Libyan engagement; engineers constructing roads, lines of communication and supply in Transjordan; working with Arabs, reconstructing ancient wells; NZers in Amman. Group of NZers at Rouen sent back to Germany when arrangement with German authorities for mutual repatriation of prisoners broke down; NZ medical personnel repatriated from Italy to the Middle East under the Geneva Convention (many named); the Duke of Gloucester visiting the NZ camp at Maadi; locomotives being unlaoded on lighters and NZ engineers in their living quarters on the lighters at a Syrian port. The Pacific War Council in the Cabinet Room at the White House. Entertainment and sport for NZ troops in the Middle East included cricket, racing, bathing in the Dead Sea, boxing and wrestling championships. Campaign against malaria, widening and deepening drains; participation at the Western desert battle front; Visit of a party of NZers to a bandit stronghold in Syra (p 62-64); Sergeant James Allen Ward's VC with illustrations (p 71-72); Winston Churchill visiting NZers in the Western Desert (p 77-80, 82); the Alamein front; the NZ General Hospital at Beirut in Syria housed in former French barracks (p 86-90). A studio party in New York for Unted Servicement; a New York Bond Party; and later, a group of NZers in New York. RNZAF training in Canada (group portrait); NZers in North Western Alaska, and a group of wireless operators in Canada. Recipients of awards (named above); Kiwi Concert Party. Pursuit of the Axis Forces and war material abandoned by Germans and Italians (p 104-125); advance to Tripoli (p 128-138). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22 cm

Date: 1942 - 1945

From: [Ephemera, programmes and menus for visits of state by foreign dignitaries to New Zealand, and by New Zealand politicians overseas. 1900-1949]

By: Jordan, William Joseph, 1879-1959

Reference: Eph-B-STATE-1942-01

Description: Bound collection of programmes, tickets and orders of service, collected by Sir William Jordan during a posting in the United Kingdom: 1942: Funeral of Field-Marshal His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, at St George's Chapel Windsor Castle, 23 January 1942. Ticket; and Order of service New Zealand Day celebration. Order of service of Thanksgiving and commemoration held in the Church of St James, Garlickhythe, 6 February 1942 Royal Colonial Institute Lodge. Installation of R W Bro William J Jordan, Past Grand Warden, New Zealand. Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen Street, 20 May 1942. Invitation, programme, luncheon menu; and notice to say the Duke of Kent would attend Form of service in memory of Air Commodore His Royal Highness George Edward Alexander Edmund, Duke of Kent. Westminster Abbey, 9 September 1942. Plus ticket 1943: Edward Algernon Fitzroy, speaker of the House of Commons 1928-1943. Born 24 July 1869, died 3 March 1943. St Margaret's Westminster, 8 March 1943. Order of service George, Viscount Galway, G.C.M.G. St Mark's North Audley Street, 31 March 1943. Order of [funeral] service St Paul's Cathedral. A service of thanksgiving to Almighty God, for the victory granted to Britain and her allies in North Africa. 19 March 1943. St Paul's Cathedral. Order of service of thanksgiving to Almighty God, for the success granted to the Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain and commemoration before God ... 26 September 1943 Westminster Abbey. Order of service at the funeral of Admiral of the Fleet Sir A Dudley P R Pound, G.C.B., O.M., G.C.V.O. 26 October 1943. 1944: ANZAC Day service of remembrance . St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square. Eric S Loveday, M.A., Vicar. 25 April 1944. Order of service Funeral of Her Late Royal Highness the Princess beatrice (Princess Henry of Battenberg), at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. 3 November 1944. Order of service In memoriam Deneys Reitz, 1882-1944. Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields London, 25 October 1944. Order of service In memory of the Most Reverend and Right Honourable William Temple ... Lord Archbishop of Canterbury ... 1881-1944. Westminster Abbey, Eve of the Festival of All Saints, 31 October 1944. Order of Service 1945: The order of service in memory of The Right Honourable David, Earl Lloyd-George, O.M. Westminster Abbey, 10 April 1945 St Paul's Cathedral, 17 April 1945. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882-1945 [Order of service] The Order of service for the Enthronement of the Most Reverend Father in God, Geoffrey, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England. Cathedral Church of Christ, Canterbury, 19 April 1945 Thanksgiving for Victory. Church of England, Brussels, 13/5/45. Order of service A service of thanksgiving to Almighty God for the victory granted in Europe to Britain and her allies. St Paul's Cathedral, 13 May 1945. Order of service Royal Colonial Institute Lodge. Installation of W Bro Sir George M Boughey. Freemasons' Hall London, 16 May 1945. Order of service Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Programmes bound in hard cover, 250 x 195 mm. Provenance: Previously held in the Parliamentary Library.

Date: Between 1910 and 1936

Reference: 1/4-002108

Description: A studio portrait of the King with his wife, Mary, their six children and the family dog. The two eldest sons were Edward VIII and George VI. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative